Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Toronto

Provide in-house legal counsel for major Canadian infrastructure projects, focusing on construction claims, contract disputes, insurance coverage, negotiation, and risk mitigation. Advise project and bid teams on alternative delivery models, public contracting, and contractual risks. Coordinate insurers, outside counsel, experts, joint venture partners, lenders, contractors, and public authorities while managing dispute strategies, legal budgets, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Provide hands-on legal and regulatory advice across crypto, payments, securities and AML; partner with product, compliance and leadership to launch products, lead regulatory initiatives, draft commercial agreements, and improve legal processes using AI and automation.

Provides commercial legal support across North America, managing customer, partner, supplier, and stakeholder contracts from drafting through negotiation. Advises teams on SaaS agreements, privacy, data protection, compliance, procurement, vendor management, AI, and cybersecurity regulations. Maintains contract lifecycle systems and templates, delivers internal training, supports legal monitoring, and coordinates occasional litigation matters with internal teams and outside counsel.

Provide broad legal support across commercial contracting, corporate development, energy-market regulation, policy, governance, privacy, intellectual property, insurance, and risk management. Advise business units on transactions and operations across Canadian and U.S. electricity markets, support market entry and regulatory proceedings, negotiate agreements, and build scalable legal templates, playbooks, and processes. The role requires direct executive exposure, strong commercial judgment, and collaboration with sales, operations, technology, finance, and energy-market teams.

Provide day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to the business.

Provide independent insurance defence litigation across property, casualty and accident benefits files. Draft pleadings, affidavits, opinions and hearing materials; conduct discoveries, mediations, LAT hearings, trials and other dispute resolution processes. Collaborate with internal teams, coach colleagues, report on claims with indemnity/expense control focus, and support senior counsel as needed.

As the first in-house legal counsel, you will manage legal frameworks, corporate governance, compliance, contract management, regulatory matters, and risk mitigation while advising the executive team.

Serve as legal domain expert bridging clients and internal engineering to define negotiation playbooks, translate legal rules into prompts/specs, validate AI outputs, lead UAT, and guide integration of GenAI and CLM contract tools for complex commercial negotiation workflows.

Act as a bilingual legal-technology expert architecting AI-powered contract solutions and drafting CLM redlining rules (80%). Serve as legal tech SME in client meetings, test and improve AI legal tools, train global teams, and handle in-house client/supplier contracts, compliance, and corporate governance (20%).

Provide legal support for portfolio acquisitions: due diligence, drafting and negotiating purchase agreements and ancillary documents, assess transaction risks, manage legal intake, and advise on compliance.

The Legal Counsel will draft, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements while providing legal support across various teams. Responsibilities include monitoring litigation and adhering to payment services regulations.